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de  corpore  comitatus  (dee  kor-p<<schwa>>-ree  kom-<<schwa>>-tay-t<<schwa>>s).  [Law Latin] From the body of the county. • This term was esp. used to distinguish a body of the county at large from a smaller area or de vicineto (“from a neighborhood”). [Blacks Law 8th]

de coronatore eligendo (dee kor-<<schwa>>-n<<schwa>>-tor-ee el-i-jen-doh), n.[Law Latin “for  electing  a  coroner”] Hist. A  writ ordering  a  sheriff  to  call  an  election  of  a  coroner  to  fill  a vacant office. See CORONER(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

de         copia         libelli         deliberanda          (dee          koh-pee-<<schwa>>         li-bel-I di-lib-<<schwa>>-ran-d<<schwa>>), n.[Law Latin “for delivering a copy of a libel”] Hist. Eccles. law.  A  writ  ordering  an  ecclesiastical-court  judge  (such  as  the  Dean  of  Arches)  to  provide  the defendant with a copy of the plaintiff’s complaint. [Blacks Law 8th]

de  contumace  capiendo  (dee  kon-ty<<schwa>>-may-see  kap-ee-en-doh),  n.[Law  Latin  “for arresting a contumacious person”] Hist. A writ issuing out of the Court of Chancery at the request of an ecclesiastical court that has found a person to be in contempt. • This writ came into use after the  Ecclesiastical  Courts  Act  of  1813  removed  ecclesiastical  courts’ …

de  continuando  assisam  (dee  k<<schwa>>n-tin-yoo-an-doh  <<schwa>>-sI-z<<schwa>>m), n.[Law Latin “for continuing an assize”] A writ to continue an assize. [Blacks Law 8th]

deconstruction,n. In critical legal studies, a method of analyzing legal principles or rules by breaking  down  the  supporting  premises  to  show  that  these  premises  might  also  advance  the opposite rule or result. — Also termed trashing. — deconstructionist,adj. & n. [Blacks Law 8th]

de consilio (dee k<<schwa>>n-sil-ee-oh). [Law Latin] Of counsel. • This term often referred to the advice or counsel to commit a crime. [Blacks Law 8th]

de consanguinitate (dee kon-sang-gwin-i-tay-tee), n. See COSINAGE. [Blacks Law 8th]

de consanguineo (dee kon-sang-gwin-ee-oh), n. See COSINAGE. [Blacks Law 8th]

De  Conjunctim  Feoffatis  (dee  k<<schwa>>n-j<<schwa>>ngk-t<<schwa>>m  fee-fay-tis), n.[Law  Latin  “concerning  persons  jointly  enfeoffed”]  Hist.  The  title  of  the  statute  of  Edward  I preventing  delays caused  by  tenants  pleading,  in  novel  disseisins or  other  actions, that  someone else was jointly seised with them. [Blacks Law 8th]